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Confirm/Denny the veracity of this? It looks amazing, but I've been fooled by too much AI to believe anything anymore.
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That is, at best, a longer term exposure of the sky than the eye will ever manage.
The night sky in Mars isn't going to look significantly different from a dark sky on Earth. Get out to a dark sky and that'll give you everything you'd get out of the Martian sky, except you'll pitentially be able to see Mars up above rather than the Earth.
It would actually be a little different as the atmosphere isn't there to absorb some wavelength, but the sentiment is there
Mars' atmosphere has the same transparency window to visible light as Earth's. The major difference between there and here is the amount of dust suspended in the air, which is highly variable and dependent on latitude and season. On average, it actually blocks more visible light than the dust and water in Earth's atmosphere, but the effect is also independent of wavelength, at least in the visible spectrum.
So the sky might actually be a little dimmer than you'd see in dry, dark conditions on Earth.